Amelia Earhart Lesson Plans

1. Where's Amelia?
Where's Amelia? Where's Amelia? Eleanor Roosevelt: Sports and Popular Culture Skill: Elementary School Time Required: One day + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 3 People, Places, and Environments -+ NCSS Strand 4 Individual Development and Identity -+ NCSS Strand 10 Civic Ideals and Practices -+ NCTE Standard 1 St...

2. Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart By Barbara Swaim B.J.Ward Middle School 200 Recreation Drive Bolingbrook, Illinois 60440 Promoting Geographic Knowledge Through Literature Workshop July 7-19, 2002 Preview of Main Ideas Amelia Earhart was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1937 she attempted a trip to...

3. Summarizing Important Details
...The Long and Short of It: Summarizing Important Details Subjects Language Arts (Study Skills) Note: This activity can be used with a selection from literature or nonfiction reading materials related to science, history, and many other subjects. Grade 3-5 6-8 9-12 Advanced Brief Description A brief Amelia Earhart biography is used to teach the skill of summarizing. Objectives Students will listen to or read a brief biography of Amelia Earhart or a selection of the teacher's choice. make notes about key points as they listen or read. write a brief (one paragraph) summary of the selection. Keywords summary, su...

4. Note Taking By Crayon
...ons or markers to teach note-taking skills. Objectives Students will highlight in color (with crayon or highlighter) words and phrases that relate to their topic of research. use their "crayon notes" to compose a paragraph to support their topic. Keywords note taking, notes, study skills, research, Earhart, theme Materials Needed a brief biography of Amelia Earhart or other grade-appropriate reading selections crayons and/or highlighters Lesson Plan About the Lesson This lesson employs a brief biography of Amelia Earhart as the starting point for note-taking exercises. The Earhart biography is only a suggest...

5. Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart Related Topics: Aviation, Women's Issues Grade Level: 4th/5th Author: Maren Willey Table of Contents: Background Information References Objectives Procedures Assessment Appendix Material Background Information: "Decide ...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying ....

6. The Community Discovered - Can anyone be a leader?
...arysport.org.nz/kids/projects/projects5/ 5proj11.html CD Special www.altavista.com Special Interest Groups www.nmaa.si.edu Interest www.soon.org.uk/true_stories/holocaust.htm Groups www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/char_ed/chloir/biogrophis/ temboom.htm Special focus on www.ionet.net/~jellenc/ae_1flt.html - Amelia Earhart subjects such as www.ionet.net/~jellenc/ae_celb.html - Amelia Earhart Posters, Latino www.stanherd.com/ - Amelia Earhart crop art Art, www.stcloudstate.edu/~brix01/TRbiooutline.html - Teddy R. Storytelling, http://portraits.npg.si.edu/img1/img1a/6800056A.jpg Folk Art, Public http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu...

7. IdahoPTV NTTI Lesson Plan: Amelia Earhart: Aviation Pioneer
Become a Member Support the programming and education educational initiatives of Idaho Public Television by joining today. home ready to learn k-12 adult education Amelia Earhart: IdahoPTV Aviation Pioneer More Schedule by Sheila Tatten and Annie Taylor Idaho State University Search more than Local 3,000 free lessons and Productions activities on PBS TeacherSource! Grade: 7-8 Time Allotment: Three 55-minute class periods Type in a keyword or Stay Curious Subject Matter: Soci...

8. Women In Flight: Using music to study American women pioneers in flight
...eers in flight As North Carolina's 97-98 Christa McAuliffe Teaching Fellow, I designed this plan to musically enhance the 5th grade social studies of American heroes, focusing on women pioneers in flight. It is intended to utilize singing and rhythmic activities to compare and contrast the lives of Amelia Earhart and Christa McAuliffe. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to successfully complete a solo trans-Atlantic flight and tragically disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937. Christa McAuliffe was selected for NASA's Teacher-in-Space program and tragically died in the 1986 Challenger s...

9. Bring Women's History to Life in the Classroom!
...ncorporate those lessons into many different areas of your curriculum. CELEBRATE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH! ABC order. Provide students with a list of historically important American woman, such as those found at the Distinguished Women Web site. (That site's list includes Rosa Parks, Jeannette Rankin, Amelia Earhart, Elizabeth Blackwell, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, and Eleanor Roosevelt.) Ask students to put the names in alphabetical order (by last name).. Write a letter. Invite students to read about Laura Welch Bush to learn about our current first lady. Encourage students to write her a letter or send an...

10. Beginning Biography Research
...nt encyclopedias could be used. World Book Student Discover Encyclopedia was chosen because it is easy for second grade students to read and because most of the biography articles were less than one page in length.) Louisa May Alcott by Jill C. Wheeler ISBN 1-56239-518-1 Abdo & Daughters, Publisher Amelia Earhart, by Marilyn Rosenthal and Daniel Freeman ISBN 0-7368-0203-7 Capstone Press, Publisher Dr. Seuss: We Love You by Patricia Stone Martin ISBN 0-86592-168-7 Rourke Enterprises, Publisher Technology resources Computer with any word processing software program. Differentiation idea: Access to computer wit...